Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through it all, the U.N. team stayed holed up in the Sea View Hotel. Both extremist groups refused to talk to the diplomats, and they made only two excursions beyond the barbed wire surrounding their hotel, one of them to the Al Mansoura detention camp in hopes of interviewing political prisoners. The prisoners jeered wildly, refused to be interviewed. Instead of fact-finding, the mission then decided to make a videotape appearance on the government television station to appeal for order and cooperation...
...students and intellectuals. Kanellopoulos says of him: "We have never had such a phenomenon in Greece." Andreas' own father calls him "an arithmetical problem: he adds little, subtracts votes, multiplies problems and divides the party." The two often clash on issues, but blood keeps them in the same camp...
...difficult to get specimens under these conditions. Says Captain Bourne: "We practically said, 'Let us have your urine while you're being shot at.' " As it happened, all Viet Cong attacks were aborted before they could reach the camp. But that made no difference to the Bourne study. The men were under relentless cyclic stress, which reached a peak every evening with the prospect of a night attack. One day when intelligence said that an attack was expected, 30% of the G.I.s developed "the G.I.s"-diarrhea. But all, like the medics, showed normal or subnormal levels...
...Paxton McCulloch, now 56, when he first flew over it in 1958. McCulloch, who is also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying out a fishing camp, he quickly built a $250,000 test facility-now expanded into a three-building plant where 180 employees produce chain-saw components and outboard-engine coils, carburetors and regulators...
Along with the fishing camp came a patchwork holding of 3,530 acres and an abandoned World War II airstrip. Before McCulloch was able to buy an adjoining 12,990 acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told...